Category: Quotes

The peace you seek begins with you. When you consciously and consistently choose peace in your words and actions, more peace will appear in your life. Stop blaming everything and everyone outside of you. Make peace within your priority. – Papaji

When a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique. – Alan Watts

In a certain sense Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life: it has no patience with second-hand wisdom. With someone else’s description of a spiritual experience, or with mere conceptions and beliefs. – Alan Watts

There is something about yourself that you don’t know. Something that you will deny even exists until it’s too late to do anything about it. It’s the only reason you get up in the morning, the only reason you suffer the shitty boss, the blood, the sweat and the tears. This is because you want people to know how good, attractive, generous, funny, wild and clever you really are. – Revolver 2005.

I break down in gentle and non-dramatic tears at least once a day. Usually this gets triggered by stories about human perseverance, suffering, willingness or goodness of spirit. Sometimes because I see the face of an older person and get a glimpse into their life, or because I see a couple arguing-playing out the inevitable game of the human condition. And sometimes it is because of nothing I can register consciously. – Bentinho Massaro

There’s something going on here in life beyond just a job and a family and career. There’s another side of the coin. It’s the same thing that causes people to want to be poets instead of bankers. I think that same spirit can be put into products, and those products can be manufactured and given to people, and they can sense that spirit.  – Steve Jobs, The Man in the Machine

Living in the present moment or “Now” doesn’t mean giving up the past or future at all, it simply means we should acknowledge them for what they are – thoughts being experienced in the mind in the present moment. Time is simply a mental construct that allows us to comprehend our reality and increase our chances of survival. Putting more energy into our thoughts about past or future than is necessary distracts us from experiencing what is real.

Who is involving your limbs in the practice, your intellect in the practice? Who is causing your mind to be involved in trying to get understanding? If the one causing activity is not there you cannot conduct any practice. This is why I tell you to simply keep quiet. Then you will know what you truly are and what you have always been, and this is indestructible. All else will be destroyed, only Existence itself remains. The Truth will always remain – it Is – it is eternal. That which is not this truth does not exist at all. – Papaji

Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now. – Thich Nhat Hant

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Present moment is life itself. – Eckhart Tolle.